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most citedM6-T: Exploring Sparse Expert Models and Beyond

14 citations · 21 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.AI2026

PEARL: Adaptive Prefill-Decode Execution with Elasticity for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Jiaan Zhu, Wei Gao, Youhui Bai +6

Multi-turn rollout dominates the cost of agentic reinforcement learning (RL). Asynchronous execution and elastic GPU resources can accelerate this stage, but adding rollout replica…

cs.CV2026

SparkDiffusion: Mitigating the High-Sparsity Trap --- A Unified Framework for up to Single-GPU Acceleration of Visual Generation

Yuxi Liu, Haoyu Li, Zekun Zhang +12

Video diffusion transformers are expensive because attention dominates long spatiotemporal token sequences. We identify the \emph{high-sparsity trap}: at extreme attention sparsity…

cs.CV2026

CrossDistill: Balancing Quality and Diversity via Trajectory-Level Hybrid Few-Step Distillation

Yuxi Liu, Haoyu Li, Yixiang Cai +8

Few-step distillation accelerates diffusion models but must balance diversity and fidelity: trajectory-based distillation preserves mode coverage, while distribution matching sharp…

cs.CV2026

RoLA: Rotary-Positioned Low-Rank Linear Attention for Efficient Diffusion Transformers

Zekun Zhang, Yixiang Cai, Yuxi Liu +9

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve strong video generation quality, but their dense spatiotemporal self-attention scales quadratically with sequence length and quickly becomes t…

cs.CV2026

SCOPE: Subspace Clustering with Online Per-Head Top-K Estimation for Sparse Video Attention

Qi Zhao, Qirui Li, Hanlin Tang +10

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) incur quadratic self-attention cost over spatiotemporal tokens. Existing training-free sparse attention methods often construct sparse masks from bloc…

cs.CV2026

Text Template Tokens Are Implicit Semantic Registers in Diffusion Transformers

Maohua Li, Qirui Li, Yanke Zhou +10

Modern text-to-image diffusion transformers (DiTs) generate images through joint attention, in which text and image tokens interact directly within a single sequence. In large-scal…

cs.CL2026

CKV: Compressed and Composable KV Cache Reuse for Efficient LLM Inference

Chuheng Du, Junyi Chen, Hanlin Tang +7

Long-context inference is central to modern large language model (LLM) applications such as retrieval-augmented generation and multi-document reasoning. To mitigate the growing inf…

cs.IR2026

Prompt Generation Technical Report

Dan Ou, Gui Ling, Hao Wan +25

Generative retrieval has become an increasingly adopted paradigm for industrial search, recommendation, and advertising systems, delivering significant online gains. Most existing…

cs.CV2026

Rethinking Cross-Layer Information Routing in Diffusion Transformers

Chao Xu, Maohua Li, Qirui Li +9

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have become a de facto backbone of modern visual generation, and nearly every major axis of their design -- tokenization, attention, conditioning, obj…

cs.CL2026

Full Attention Strikes Back: Transferring Full Attention into Sparse within Hundred Training Steps

Yanke Zhou, Yiduo Li, Hanlin Tang +6

Long-context inference in large language models is bottlenecked by the quadratic cost of full attention. Existing efficient alternatives often rely either on native sparse training…

cs.DC2026

ROSE: Rollout On Serving GPUs via Cooperative Elasticity for Agentic RL

Wei Gao, Yuheng Zhao, Dilxat Muhtar +13

Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) is reshaping LLM post-training, but end-to-end training time is dominated by compute-intensive, multi-turn rollouts whose resource demand varies…

cs.LG2026

RT-Lynx: Putting GEMM Sparsity in the Right Place for Diffusion Models

Xing Cong, Hanlin Tang, Kan Liu +3

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) achieve strong performance in image generation but incur substantial inference costs. While prior work has reduced this cost via quantization and disti…

cs.IR2026

Rethinking Retrieval-Augmentation as Synthesis: A Query-Aware Context Merging Approach

Jiarui Guo, Yuemeng Xu, Zongwei Lv +6

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to extend their existing knowledge by dynamically incorporating external information. However, practical d…

cs.LG2026

Shiva-DiT: Residual-Based Differentiable Top- Selection for Efficient Diffusion Transformers

Jiaji Zhang, Hailiang Zhao, Jiaju Wu +3

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) are costly at high resolution because self-attention scales quadratically with token sequence length. Existing pruning methods do not jointly provide…

cs.LG2025

Part II: ROLL Flash -- Accelerating RLVR and Agentic Training with Asynchrony

Han Lu, Zichen Liu, Shaopan Xiong +19

Synchronous Reinforcement Learning (RL) post-training has emerged as a crucial step for enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs) with diverse capabilities. However, many systems desi…

cs.DC2025

RollPacker: Mitigating Long-Tail Rollouts for Fast, Synchronous RL Post-Training

Wei Gao, Yuheng Zhao, Dakai An +11

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a pivotal post-training technique for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, synchronous RL post-training oft…

cs.IR2025

RecIS: Sparse to Dense, A Unified Training Framework for Recommendation Models

Hua Zong, Qingtao Zeng, Zhengxiong Zhou +31

In this paper, we propose RecIS, a unified Sparse-Dense training framework designed to achieve two primary goals: 1. Unified Framework To create a Unified sparse-dense training fra…

cs.LG2025

KVTuner: Sensitivity-Aware Layer-Wise Mixed-Precision KV Cache Quantization for Efficient and Nearly Lossless LLM Inference

Xing Li, Zeyu Xing, Yiming Li +6

KV cache quantization can improve Large Language Models (LLMs) inference throughput and latency in long contexts and large batch-size scenarios while preserving LLMs effectiveness.…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

DDK: Distilling Domain Knowledge for Efficient Large Language Models

Jiaheng Liu, Chenchen Zhang, Jinyang Guo +13

Despite the advanced intelligence abilities of large language models (LLMs) in various applications, they still face significant computational and storage demands. Knowledge Distil…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

D-CPT Law: Domain-specific Continual Pre-Training Scaling Law for Large Language Models

Haoran Que, Jiaheng Liu, Ge Zhang +13

Continual Pre-Training (CPT) on Large Language Models (LLMs) has been widely used to expand the model's fundamental understanding of specific downstream domains (e.g., math and cod…

cs.LG2022

GBA: A Tuning-free Approach to Switch between Synchronous and Asynchronous Training for Recommendation Model

Wenbo Su, Yuanxing Zhang, Yufeng Cai +9

High-concurrency asynchronous training upon parameter server (PS) architecture and high-performance synchronous training upon all-reduce (AR) architecture are the most commonly dep…

cs.DC2022

PICASSO: Unleashing the Potential of GPU-centric Training for Wide-and-deep Recommender Systems

Yuanxing Zhang, Langshi Chen, Siran Yang +12

The development of personalized recommendation has significantly improved the accuracy of information matching and the revenue of e-commerce platforms. Recently, it has 2 trends: 1…

cs.LG2021★ 14 cited

M6-T: Exploring Sparse Expert Models and Beyond

An Yang, Junyang Lin, Rui Men +12

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models can achieve promising results with outrageous large amount of parameters but constant computation cost, and thus it has become a trend in model scal…